In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a point of observation, his personality only to be guessed at, watching every movement of the other characters' actions as they flash like moving pictures across the distorting screen of a jealous mind. The result is one of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic.
- ISBN10 1847490441
- ISBN13 9781847490445
- Publish Date 1 July 2008 (first published December 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Oneworld Classics Ltd
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 150
- Language English